Licorice root More of a snack to me than candy but i really like it.

Turkish pepper candy

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Haribo Piratos

My wife loves Durians, but I don't allow that shit in the house lol

I tried some scandanavian-style sallted liquorice back in the spring. I liked it, but only in VERY small quantities. Unfortunately, my boyfriend was allergic to it!

Lindt is the absolute best chocolate in my opinion. I love to cook with it and make handmade filled chocolates and candy truffles. The only thing I get are the bars so I can do what I want with them.

Actually, you don't. You can find regular chili peppers in chocolate (as mqstout already said) in some online shipping portals or in some chocolate speciality shops. But I haven't found one with habanero for sale yet, so you'll have to make the really good stuff yourself.

hhmm.. I've tried European chocolate collections from importers in better years and most were complex but not great overall. I'd say the exceptions are the Austrian Mozartkugeln and some truly amazing Belgian and Swiss confections, The weirdest European chocolates I ever had used actual perfume and tasted quite awful! I honestly feel that a number of chocolatiers in America can hold their own with the imports I've had a chance to try. I'm not talking about the waxy Whitman's, Russell Stover, or Godiva ...no I mean the REAL good stuff... like Trader Joe's chocolate bars.

Trader Joe's 73% chocolate bars are flavorful and a lot less sweet than the usual candy bars in the major supermarket. The seriously high cocoa ones (over 80%) with little sweetener are truly intense and help with breathing issues too! (Learned that good chocolate could help with asthma from CHKD hospital when our son was small.) The rest of us split one bar a month when we go there to stock up on more practical things (like clean milk.) We seriously look forward to that one little piece!

Had one piece of Seattle's Best chocolate this fall. It was amazingly good, but I will want to sample more flavors before I fully recommend the whole brand.

There is a monastery in America that sells handmade fudge and candies each year, and their output was absolutely world class the last time I got to taste any. I'd be surprised if this has changed at all

I've tried Cadbury's as made by Hershey's and thought it not nearly as good as the usual Hershey's candy. I was sent a Cadbury's from England once, and was disappointed with it too, though I had enough grace not to say so to the generous gifter. Didn't taste much better to me than the American version IMHO, kinda over-sweetened and bland. It could be that the lengthy shipping time took a toll on it though.

I can't agree that Hershey's is actually the worst. Hershey's is actually medium-decent chocolate, if it wasn't so sugary. I've encountered much worse chocolate about everywhere. "Generic" chocolates at the dollar stores can be positively scary!

Mars does make some decent chocolate, at least Dove's Promises are pretty good, especially the dark chocolate.

I'm another fan of Lindt chocolates. Usually its a bag of truffles we split for the family (only having one a day/person)

Odd, but true. If you say candy when you mean chocolate bars, people here will blink a second as they re-adjust. M&Ms are considered candy, but most chocolate candy is just called chocolate. I think we mostly think of candy as 'sugar with other flavors.' lol

I used to like lemonheads and butterscotch (Werthers) when I was little. The only candy I eat even semi-often these days are those little Altoids mints, though I sometimes think I should count Ricola cough drops. Those taste so nice that I feel a little guilty using one when I have a cough ;)

I've had that experience too. We like to try new things around here, so we would try a nice 'fancy' chocolate we'd not seen before, and wished we'd stuck with Lindt...

I like that you acknowledge that there's a personal & cultural effect there. Some people like more intense food experiences than others. Some food cultures learn toward liking different flavors in their candy/chocolate too, like having hot peppers, insects, or seafood in it. (I don't like any of those.) My daughter likes the honeyed taste of Toblerone, but I like Trader Joe's 73% chocolate bars better :)

I haven't noticed any in the stores for awhile now, not that I really looked. I just checked and you can order them on Amazon, but only in bulk. Wonka's site still lists it as a thing - so you may still come across it somewhere. I guess its just not as popular these days.

Ah, I thought you were at first talking about US Smarties, that chalky bland candy!

Are the shells on Smarties (Europe version) as crunchy as M&Ms?

My favorite candy is Godiva Chocolate Liqueur 750ml!! X-D

Otherwise, it varies. Some are 3 musketeers, Kit-Kat bars, and recently Haribo Gummi Raspberries and Jelly Belly jelly beans.

Even Fosters and Coors?

THIS. we get the cadbury eggs at easter time, but the chocolate doesn't taste anything like it does over there. This statement makes me sound like a pretentious ass, but it's true.

I was in London many moons ago and had the awesome that is Cadbury. I'd ride the train every day from Reading into London and have a candy bar for breakfast. So bad. Thank god I was only there a week, otherwise I'd not fit onto the airplane coming home ;)

Although in a competition between Mars and Nestle, Nestle wins hands down. I won't make chocolate chip cookies with anything else.

I don't eat candy (haven't for a LONG time). When I did, I liked peanut brittle, big hunk toffee bars, and Reeses Pieces.

Salmiakki (I guess it is the same as "salted liquorice" mentioned above?). For instance "Super Salmiakki" from Fazer tastes good in my mouth.

http://www.suomikauppa.fi/product_info.php?products_id=70&language=en

But it is an acquired taste, it may be very hard to grow to like it if you haven't eaten it since a kid. Here's a good TV commercial for a salmiakki-flavored ice cream, which is tasted and commented by foreigners, and Finns (the formers hate the taste, the latter love it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBBakWOeEQ

"World's most hated. Finland's most loved."

I like the Pirkka (in K-Kauppa stores) "Mustis" salmiakki ice cream more though than the ice cream above, Pirkka it is cheaper too. I usually buy a few of those whenever I visit a K-brand grocery store. To me it works better with its vanilla ice cream covered with a salmiakki coating, and a salmiakki core inside, rather than the whole ice cream being salmiakki-flavored, as with the Fazer variant. It gives a nice contrast between the sweet vanilla ice cream, and the stronger tasting salmiakki (rather than it all tasting the same):

http://www.k-ruoka.fi/pirkka-tuotteet/pirkka-mustis-jaatelopuikko-75-ml59-g/

Oh, now I noticed from that page that the "Mustis" ice cream is actually manufactured in Netherlands (and imported to Finland), so apparently it is also sold there, just with some other name? I know "salmiakki" exists there too.

Ah this reminds me of times when my father went to Finnland because of work once or twice a year, he always bought me salmiak chewing gum. That was really great.

In regards of chocolate, I am living in Switzerland at the moment, there is so much variety and things to try out can't say I have a favorite, but I prefer the ones with more cacao :D

Haven't experienced either of those yet, but likely, yes.

Soviet brands:
Glory chocolate
Kitty Kitty toffee (warning: hard on teeth, we used to call it "dental filling remover". See also: Icebreaker toffee.)
Red Front fudge
Li'l Cow fudge (or look for the Polish Krówka)
Sugared cranberry

Fair warning: the stuff you might get if you just buy what I linked may be expired and/or substandard crap. Soviet brands are basically public domain nationwide, and while 80s State Standard recipes are also public domain (and awesome), TD/ISO candy makers cut corners whenever and wherever possible. I don't think anyone'll bother counterfeiting Kitty, but I also didn't think anyone'd bother counterfeiting Li'l Cow.

if you are ever in or around Moscow:
Istra wafers (there's no way they'll survive commercial transportation)

Generally:
Brushwood pastries (think angel wings, but airier, softer, crunchier, and way more delicious, typically look like stars or snowflakes), alternatively
Çäkçäk

Other stuff no one suggested yet:
Turkish Baklava
Turkish Lokum, Bulgarian Lokum
Hungarian Marzipan

And the best sweet stuff ever is
Churchkhela (I only tried the Georgian variety).